Richard Henry Tawney (1880-1962) was born in Calcutta and educated at Rugby and Oxford. He was a British sergeant during World War I and in 1931 became Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Tawney had a strong influence on the British Labour Party and was married to William Beveridge’s sister, Jeanette. His principal works were:The Acquisitive Society (1920) Secondary Education for All (1922) Education: the Socialist Policy (1924)Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)Land and Labour in China (1932)